Are you at risk for tearing your ACL?! It’s one of the most feared injury in sports, an ACL tear. Such a common injury, at times it seems like an epidemic in high school, college and professional sports. While injuries are common in athletes, knee...
How to stay healthy with spring race training???
Here at Rebound, we all know when spring hits because we start seeing a lot of runners with injuries. There are a number of reasons for this, but most likely due to training for races in the spring/early summer as they begin increasing mileage. The list of injuries...
So You’re a Cyclist
So You’re A Cyclist….. What does this mean? To a physical therapist it means many things. The relatively static position of the bike with a fixed repetitive movement for hours has many impacts. The position leads us to think about what muscles are doing the majority...
Everyone deserves a good bike fit.
Too many people find cycling uncomfortable. The saddle is uncomfortable, the rider's hands, their lower back…the list goes on. While these are normal complaints and perfectly reasonable reasons to not get into cycling for transportation or fitness, there is a simple...
Concussion and Post-Concussion Syndrome
The term “concussion” has gained a lot of attention in recent years. It’s been in NFL news headlines, the title of Hollywood’s 2015 movie about former NFL football player Mike Webster’s death and pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu’s discovery of chronic traumatic...
Proprioception- That’s Physical Therapy
Proprioception-A word that you may want to understand better as it relates to your body is “proprioception”. It’s a term that is important to all human movement, athletic performance, injury prevention, and rehabilitation. Proprioception [pro”pre-o-sep’shun] “A sense...
Running Form- to change or not to change?
Many patients who have experienced running-related injuries consider embarking on changing their running gait in an attempt to improve their efficiency and avoid re-injury. This begs the question: is this is a good idea or not? What are some things to consider that...
Patterned People Practicing Patterned Proclivity- Part 2
We humans are certainly creatures of habit. How many times a week do you wake up and feel you are repeating the previous day? Alarm goes off too early, roll off the same side of bed, drink from the same cup of coffee, brush your teeth the same way since you were a...
Patterned People Practicing Patterned Proclivity
We humans are certainly creatures of habit. How many times a week do you wake up and feel you are repeating the previous day? Alarm goes off too early, roll off the same side of bed, drink from the same cup of coffee, brush your teeth the same way since you were a...
Routine Maintenance
Much of medicine is striving for a proactive approach to treatment vs. a reactive. More and more people are getting active and taking charge of their health care. In the past, physical therapy has been predominately reactive. You get injured or have surgery, then go...